[great_tankard]

Nice breakdown.

It's a small thing, but I'm really grateful that he very specifically aimed at the senior authors here. While I'm not sure that the first author can be completely absolved of responsibility (due to the simple fact that they are listed as an author), the power dynamics in academia are absurdly skewed and it's nice to see a tacit acknowledgement of that in an otherwise (justifiably) scathing critique.

[rStar]

i'm torn. I'd like to agree with the sentiment of the OP, but then when I surmise that the 1rst author will use this article as the basis for their job talk, and probably get something somewhere sunny and warm, I have second thoughts.